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Windracers ULTRA
Use Cases
Windracers ULTRA is a dual-use, multi-mission platform built for real work. One aircraft adapts in minutes to deliver, drop, or detect, giving you a single system that replaces multiple assets. Defence organisations like the UK Ministry Of Defence already rely on Windracers ULTRA for intelligence gathering and resupply, and world-leading educational institutions use ULTRA across all three mission types.
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Deliver
Rapid, safe and reliable distribution of mail, parcels and cargo
Middle-mile delivery to remote regions is usually slow, expensive, and dependent on ferries, airlines or niche logistics operators. Windracers ULTRA breaks those constraints. It delivers mail, parcels and cargo faster and more reliably than traditional transport. ULTRA also performs when weather or geography takes other options offline.
- Proven across NHS (2020), Royal Mail (2021), and regional trials in 2022.
- Sustained operations across Orkney in 2023 and 2024, with Shetland planned in 2025.
- Manages strong winds and tough weather using short airfields others can’t utilise.
- Keeps mail and cargo routes open during disruption to ferries and crewed aircraft.
- Provides predictable, repeatable remote delivery where delays are the norm.
Drop
Critical aid delivered safely by parachute
Poor infrastructure, damaged access routes, and severe weather make humanitarian and emergency delivery risky and unreliable. Windracers ULTRA uses autonomous flight and a triple-drop-door system to deliver aid safely and cost-effectively while removing pilot risk. It keeps supplies moving even when landing isn’t possible.
- Supplies parachuted to Ukrainian troops during high-pressure resupply operations.
- Essential goods delivered to isolated Alaskan communities cut off by snow and ice.
- Medical aid and vaccines supplied to remote African villages with limited access.
- Emergency responders use ULTRA to drop fire suppressant onto developing wildfires.
- Provides fast, unmanned aid delivery during crises, conflict, and extreme weather.
Detect
Intelligent autonomous aerial surveys around the world
Aerial surveys give organisations the real-time awareness they need to protect people, assets, and infrastructure. Windracers ULTRA enhances this through its long endurance, heavy-lift capability and the ability to carry a full suite of sensors. 15-hour nominal endurance means more data per flight and far fewer operational interruptions.
- Completed 25 British Antarctic Survey missions monitoring wildlife and geology.
- Supports intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations in Ukraine.
- Used by NORCE at the TONe Antarctic Research Station with two ULTRA aircraft.
- Delivered wide-area survey capability across Orkney in 2023 and 2024.
- Demonstrated infrared AI detection of emerging wildfires during SWARM trials.
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